Getting back to normal life

Ally has started working with a school provided tutor two days a week after school. This is to help her catch up on the academics she missed while out of school for the PPRC. The tutor is great, and speaks to Ally exclusively in Spanish, because in her words "Ally can understand me perfectly and speaks beautifully so I think giving her more practice in Spanish is good" Ally enjoys working with Ms. Christina and it's helping her gain back some of her academic confidence.

Hard at work on the white board.

Ally's class did these cute "Spring" figures. 

Ally wrote "in Spring I like playing with my friends outside and planting flowers in my garden."

Ally took this selfie on the way to gymnastics. She decided to stay for 2 hours and was very excited. Her plan was 90 minutes, but she asked to stay for 2 hours, and told me "I can handle it Mommy" I was so proud of her for speaking up and for talking about her desire and ability. 

It was a super proud parenting day, because when we picked Ally up at school she told us  that she ran in gym class! The first running she did in months. 

Thursday picture to text to her friend Daniela who was out sick. They were texting each other from their mom's phones lots of emojis back and forth and pictures 

A not so thrilled Ally before her gymnastics sleepover. She was annoyed with me taking a picture of her. She had a great time. She has a good group of friends her age on the team, and they hung out together and stayed up until 1:45 am!!! And woke up at 6:00am. Ally held it together for ballet class later in the morning and then kept nodding off in the car on the way home from ballet. We stopped and got her a Happy Meal which she ate then came home and fell asleep for 4 hours! Woke up, hung out and was back asleep for the night 2 hours later. 

Big news from the sleepover is that Ally practiced the team routine and is excited about performing in the show in a few weeks.